aeroman Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 If you temporarily injure one of your hands, and it may take a couple weeks to heal, do you continue training with your uninjured hand or do you rest? Example injuries: burns, cuts, blisters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
climber511 Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 Given the choice of doing something smart and something totally stupid - I usually choose stupid - I suggest you choose smart and back off a bit. Now small cuts, bruises, blisters etc aren't really injuries - those are kind of conditions that go along with hard training now and then. You can usually train around those by changing your workout to different movements that allow training and healing at the same time. Tendons, ligaments, muscle insertions etc that flare up - sometimes you need to back off or even quit for a while to avoid long term problems - learning to know the difference between sore and injured is part of the learning curve for training. Good Luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big bri Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 If you temporarily injure one of your hands, and it may take a couple weeks to heal, do you continue training with your uninjured hand or do you rest? Example injuries: burns, cuts, blisters. with burns cuts and blisters you can just put on prewrap and athletic tape on the affected area and that should be enough to let you keep training. and it's exactly as climber said regarding injuries in your tendons, ligaments, and muscles. i have tendonitis right now so i'm not touching weights or a gripper for a little while to make sure i heal up completely and don't do myself any worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIKERICH Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 If you temporarily injure one of your hands, and it may take a couple weeks to heal, do you continue training with your uninjured hand or do you rest? Example injuries: burns, cuts, blisters. I would continue to train with the uninjured hand and after healing, the injured hand will catch up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeroman Posted July 10, 2006 Author Share Posted July 10, 2006 I burned the palm of my hand on the thumb pad with a sparkler. The blister is about the size of the quarter. The skin started to rip off after only lightly squeezing one of my grippers and the gripper doesn't even touch the blister. I think I will just let it heal. What's a couple of weeks? Thanks for the advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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